#''at least part of the culture'' because reindeer herding became much more central to the mountain sámi than for the forest or sea sámi

[freyjaofthenorth]

sees youtube video about my old flame the pitted ware culture: yay!

it's described as "the last hunter-gatherers of europe": uh. no?

because you see, the last hunter-gatherers of europe were part of a culture that is still around, although they transitioned from hunter-gatherers slowly starting in the late iron age, supplementing the hunting, fishing, and foraging with some animal husbandry (something the PWC seems to have done with pigs too), and after almost a millennium as herder-hunter-gatherers they intensified the herding to the point of being primarily herders (parts of the culture at least) as a response to taxation pressure in the 17th century

you might have heard of them they're called the sámi